About the Role
The Senior Director of Customer Experience and Digital Self-Service Strategy is responsible for owning and delivering measurable improvements in customer experience and digital self-service performance across the enterprise. This role leads the execution of the CX vision across priority customer journeys and channels, driving adoption, scale, and maturity of digital, AI-enabled, and self-service capabilities. The Senior Director partners closely with Product, Technology, Journey, Channel, Operations, and Data teams to translate strategy into execution, ensuring customer-obsessed, digital-first experiences that improve customer resolution and satisfaction while enabling efficiency and scale. While customer experience and digital outcomes are primary, the role also contributes to cost-to-serve reduction and productivity gains through journey simplification, channel shift, and automation.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute CX and digital channel strategy across the customer lifecycle, translating the enterprise CX vision into prioritized journey and channel roadmaps.
- Reimagine and enhance the customer journeys that matter most by simplifying end-to-end experiences, reducing customer effort and contacts, and improving NPS while lowering cost-to-serve.
- Own journey performance management—establishing targets, governance, and routines to track adoption, resolution, and experience outcomes across channels and journeys.
- Lead cross-functional working teams (Product, Technology, Operations, Data/Analytics, and frontline stakeholders) through influence, to redesign how work is done and deliver measurable outcomes.
- Provide clear business requirements for digital and AI tools, platforms, and automation that enhance CX, improve frontline productivity, increase self-service resolution, and reduce cost.
- Evaluate and pilot emerging platforms and market capabilities (including AI-enabled experiences) to identify opportunities for channel shift, personalization, and proactive service.
- Lead strategy and continuous improvement for priority journeys including Onboarding, Billing, Troubleshooting, and Resolution experiences—identifying pain points, root causes, and high-impact simplification opportunities.
- Partner with VoC and insights teams to translate customer feedback into actionable initiatives, ensuring journey investments address the most material drivers of satisfaction, effort, and cost.
- Develop business cases for journey and channel investments, ensuring benefits are quantified (CX, revenue, and cost), delivered, and sustained.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a related field. MBA preferred
- Minimum 10 years of Telecom/Broadband/related industry experience across Strategy, Customer Experience, Base Management, Product Management, Operations
- Strong AI skills/knowledge and experience in applying AI solutions to solve business problems/outcomes
- Ability to synthesize data, insights, industry knowledge to recommend and implement Customer Experience solutions that meaningfully impacts Revenue, EBITDA, Customer Churn/Survivability
- Ability to analyze customer experience, identify specific improvements across NPS/OSAT opportunities, and work with cross-functional teams to improve customer satisfaction and drive sustained customer loyalty.
- Experience successfully working across levels and functional areas in a dynamic, fast-paced environment (i.e., technical, creative, and executive team)
- Ability to manage across multiple leadership levels; Corporate, Regional and local functional structures with both internal and external partners
- Ability to diplomatically resolve conflicts and facilitate cooperative team resolutions in a timely manner
- Ability to develop and lead a high-performing team
- Strong oral and written communications skills. Effective interpersonal, communication, consultation, and collaboration skills
- Attention to detail and organization with the ability to multi-task and delegate as appropriate to complete tasks and initiatives
Skills
- Digital
- AI
- Customer Experience
- Self-Service
- Strategy
- Product Management
- Operations
- Data Analysis
- Communication
Location
- New York
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 10+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree
- MBA preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $161,186.00 - $230,265.00
Benefits
- Competitive pay
About the Company
- Optimum is a leader in the fast-paced world of connectivity, empowering lives, fueling businesses, and driving innovation.
- Connectivity is now longer a luxury, but a necessity.
- A career at Optimum means you'll be enabling progress and enhancing lives by providing reliable, high-speed connectivity solutions that keep the world connected.
- Our successes, now and in the future, are powered by our amazing product, a commitment to our people and culture, and the connections we make in our communities.
- At Optimum, every action and interaction we take part in, is driven by our three Guiding Principles: Do What’s Right, Drive One Optimum, and Make It Happen.
- Our employees are empowered to do the right thing for our customers and co-workers and to recognize and reward these behaviors when we see them.
- It’s all part of the bigger picture of “Be The Difference” where each employee knows they have the power to enact real change, share new ideas, and understand that learning never stops.
Equal Opportunity
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, religion, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
- The Company provides reasonable accommodations upon request in accordance with applicable requirements.
